Long List for the 2013 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize

17-Jul-2013

New York's Center for Fiction, the only literary center (or centre as we would say) wholly devoted to the art of fiction in the US, has announced their Long List for the 2013 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. For the second year in an ongoing partnership with the American Booksellers Association (ABA), the not-for-profit trade association for independent booksellers, ABA member booksellers around the country served as first-tier readers.

Last year Ben Fountain received the Prize for Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and he will serve as one of the judges for this year’s Prize. The other distinguished American writers who will now choose the short list and the final winner of the 2013 Flaherty-Dunnan Prize from this long list are Victor LaValle, Roxana Robinson, Christine Schutt, and Luis Alberto Urrea. The short list will be announced in late August.

Flaherty-Dunnan Prize 2013 Long List

Any Resemblance to Actual Persons by Kevin Allardice (Counterpoint)

The Blood of Heaven by Kent Wascom (Grove Press)

The Carriage House by Louisa Hall (Scribner)

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (Hogarth)

Elders by Ryan McIlvain (Hogarth)

Eleven Days by Lea Carpenter (Alfred A. Knopf)

Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi (Penguin Press)

In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell (Soho Press)

About the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize

The Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize is awarded to the best debut novel of the year. The author of the winning book receives $10,000 and the other shortlisted authors receive $1,000 each. The award is given annually at The Center for Fiction's Benefit and Awards Dinner. The Prize was originally established in 2005 as the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize. The Center for Fiction board member and well-known non-fiction author, Nancy Dunnan, now funds The Center’s First Novel Prize. It is officially called the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, named after Nancy’s journalist father, Ray W. Flaherty.

- See more at: http://www.centerforfiction.org/awards/the-flaherty-dunnan-first-novel-prize/2013-long-list/#sthash.bWIcrRZi.dpuf